The law relating to road traffic offences is often overlooked by commentators on criminal law, who tend to focus on the more paradigmatic groups of offences such as homicide offences, offences against person, sexual offences and property offences. Arguably, however, traffic offences should receive much greater attention, given that is the one area of the criminal law most likely to touch on the everyday lives of a large majority of the adult population of any industrialized country. Unlike the more paradigmatic types of offences, the average member of the public is conceivably as likely to be a preparator of a traffic crime as he or she is to be a victim thereof.